badblocks is a Free software to check for bad sectors on a disk drive. It creates a list of these sectors that can be used with other programs, like mkfs, so that they are not used in the future and thus do not cause corruption of data. It is part of the e2fsprogs project.
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ZFS multithreaded sustained random small files synchronous write IOPS
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multithreaded sustained random small files synchronous write IOPS
It is the worst case scenario under heavy load.
And exactly what e-mail and database servers have to cope with under really heavy load.
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ROSA Marathon Release Pack 1 brings tooltips to SimpleWelcome
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Now, take a look at this screen shot. Notice the tooltip. That is a welcome feature, and that is how it should be.
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BackTrack 5 R3 review
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It is distribution designed for penetration testers and other security professionals, or those who want to mess with all the best security and penetration testing applications the free software community has to offer.
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BlankOn 8 preview
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Overall, I think it is a good effort, but there are still some rough edges that should not be too difficult to fix. So while I am still working on a review, here are a few screen shots from a test installation just so you could see what the distribution brings to the table.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3
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Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Centos 6.3 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.
Read more »Disney attacks open source
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Using open source is a 'rookie mistake' according to a Disney sitcom. It's always a great idea to try to brainwash the kids.
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Top 3 applications menu extensions for GNOME 3
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In going through the list of available extensions, I came across three that are good candidates to either replace or complement the Activities button. Like all extensions, they are free and easy to install.
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Creating Simple Virtual Hosts With mod_mysql_vhost On Lighttpd (Debian Squeeze)
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This guide explains how you can use mod_mysql_vhost to create simple virtual hosts on a lighttpd web server on Debian Squeeze. With mod_mysql_vhost, lighttpd can read the vhost configuration from a MySQL database. Currently, you can store the domain and the document root in the MySQL database which results in very simple virtual hosts.
Read more »Have you seen Anaconda’s new UI?
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The official rationale for the new design is that the current “graphical UI is really starting to show its age, both to the users and to the developers.
Read more »CSS Shaders, W3C, Microsoft and Broken Standards
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Right now the W3C is discussing CSS shader standardization on their mailing lists. Microsoft has voiced their opinion and things are about to get very strange indeed.
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Lazarus Free Pascal RAD IDE 1.0 RC2 is released
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The Lazarus team is glad to announce that Lazarus 1.0RC2 is available for download at the SourceForge download page:
Choose your CPU / OS / distro and then the 1.0RC2 directory.
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Managing A VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox On nginx (Ubuntu 12.04)
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phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox in headless servers.
Read more »s800c is powered by Android and has built-in Wi-Fi
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The Coolpix s800c, which, with the help of Android 2.3 and built-in Wi-Fi capability, enables you to do a few things you already do with your smartphone, like mess around on Google Play.
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Ubuntu 12:04 with Webmin: Bootup and Shutdown Module
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Webmin provides a web based interface to manage an Ubuntu server. One of the management options is to configure daemons to start at boot time. This task can be performed using Webmin.
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